Re: Yet another newbie

[edgehp together net (Dale Pontius)]

In article <199902070334.WAA26188@fourier.capital.edu.capital.edu>,
        dreed@capital.edu (Dave Reed) writes:
>
> Geez, give the developers a break - it's still in beta.  I'm certain
> once 1.0 comes out someone will spend the time to put together RPMS
> that work, but with new releases coming out weekly, other things are
> more important - like fixing bugs!
>
No problems with the developers - just with some aspects of the
development philosophy. If GNOME is truly "in beta", it needs to
be accessable to non-developers. Part of that is building RPMs.
Otherwise, it's alpha. Perhaps late alpha, but the essence of
beta is getting to ordinary users.

Besides, I've been running 0.99.3, and I've been trying to send
adequate bug reports. (I've had some number of list problems,
too.) But by now, I doubt any of you want to hear of a problem
with 0.99.3, yet there are no up-to-date RPMs so I can do better.

Dale Pontius